BIOGRAPHY: Hutton, Presley
From the A.T. Andreas Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, 1875

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PRESLEY HUTTON. – This gentleman, the original proprietor of the now pleasant 
Village of Belle Plaine, Iowa, was born March 3, 1812, in Madison County, Virginia, but 
removed with his parents when about four years of age, to Champaign County, Ohio, 
where he remained until he was twenty-five, receiving his education on the farm and at 
the common school.  At twenty he learned the mason's trade, which he followed for 
several years I that state and Indiana.  In the Fall of 1846, he bought a farm some eight 
miles from Indianapolis, Ind., where he remained some eight years when he sold and 
purchased a fine farm near Bloomington, Illinois, which he conducted until the Fall of 
1856, when moving to Benton County, Iowa, he bought a tract of land and improved a 
farm near Irwin, in that county.  In the Spring of 1861, he purchased the land in which 
now stands the City of Belle Plaine, negotiated with the railroad company and secured 
the location of a depot, and the laid out a town, which, through his good management 
and liberality, has become a flourishing city, containing over two thousand inhabitants.
Mr. Hutton was joined in marriage with Miss Margaret Johnson in July, 1834.  She 
died at Belle Plaine, September, 1874, leaving a host of sorrowing friends.